Graveyards are a waste of space and resources, amirite?

Graveyards are for living residents. Its not like the dead can feel anything. Its purely a ritual for the living.

by Due-Telephone 1 month ago

Grave yards, like funerals, are for the living.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Interestingly, this can be said about most human activities. Tattoo shops come to mind: utterly senseless and without value. But people do what they like. It's not like life will change measurably if we convert all the graveyards to strip malls.

by clovisoberbrunn 1 month ago

Golf courses come to mind

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Some people don't like baseball and a bb field takes up a lot space. You can go on and on about this

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Turn every full-size Golf Course into a MASSIVE graveyard.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Have them be together..out of bounds is gravestones..mayhe have a backboard on the green which is a row of gravestones

by Anonymous 1 month ago

That's a great idea...sort of. Sometimes I feel like graveyards are meant to be quiet places and I don't want someone yelling "FORE!!!!" when I visit my dead grandma

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Nice green space in cities

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is why I think cremation makes a lot more sense.

by elzastehr 1 month ago

Yeah this is good! Just deep enough lol

by Lschaden 1 month ago

Why not? They dead.

by xkunze 1 month ago

Isn't that what we do already? It's just inside of a box

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

I'm down for that

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

I don't like to look in mirrors what I see frightens me

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

If we combined graveyards with golf courses, we'd have half the wasted space of each.

by Acceptable_Honey_751 1 month ago

There's an idea.. and then the families can pay to have the holes dedicated to their loved ones. That way their name will live on forever and people are actually enjoy going there

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

While I agree in principle, the space it uses is nothing compared to say, car parks, which are a massive waste of space and resources and also bad for the environment, as well as being ugly.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I love graveyards. They are cool, kinda creepy, nice gardens, and quiet. If we need to figure out a better system, we will.

by Vernmohr 1 month ago

Plus free food right? Assuming you're a maggot.

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

Or a cannibal.

by jerome77 1 month ago

You definitely will work up an appetite. Trying to dig up those bodies

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

"Will work for food"

by jerome77 1 month ago

Agreed. Land should be for the living.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I never want to be buried in a grave yard for this reason. I'd rather be cremated and thrown into the ocean or wind or under a pretty tree. Don't put my name on a plaque that no one will ever read.

by Lschaden 1 month ago

Cremation is the logical way to leave this world...

by Maureenjacobson 1 month ago

Should just bury them and plant a tree

by Garnettgaylord 1 month ago

genius, on each tree has a name tag or picture and that's perfect

by Anonymous 1 month ago

What do you suggest we put decomposing bodies? They have to go somewhere.

by FreeAbbreviations 1 month ago

Cremate them or donate them to science

by Anonymous 1 month ago

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by wilfrid33 1 month ago

We should just flay people and let maggots return them to the soil.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Apparently, you've never been on an airplane. There is more space in this world than most people (especially people living in cities) can comprehend.

by shaniadonnelly 1 month ago

It's for living ppl to mourn and remember the ones that passed away. Basically a place for ppl to cope.. Just like religious buildings.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

How often do people actually go to gravesites? Maybe once a year ? If that. You could easily do that anywhere. What's the difference?

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

Could not agree more, should just burn the dead.

by bogansammie 1 month ago

Graveyards are for the living, not the dead. Well not exclusively the dead.

by Prize_Championship 1 month ago

So where do you propose goths do their photoshoots, then?

by StatisticianKooky169 1 month ago

The city morgue

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

Where do you live that space is at such a premium that you want to do away with graveyards? If nothing else they offer greenery and open space in cities. Usually have beautiful mature trees, and typically have walking trails or can be walked through. But let's replace them with car parks and strip malls that are filed with empty shops

by Anonymous 1 month ago

At least that generates jobs and tax money

by wilfrid33 1 month ago

Burying is gross and current practices are terrible for the environment too.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Go tell your mother you are only leaving her in the ground during the ceremony then it's off to the kiln with her.

by reanna16 1 month ago

Graveyards are natural habitat for goth girls, without graveyards they will become extinct.

by Luciemaggio 1 month ago

Let's just demolish any building that isn't a farm or grocer while we're at it

by terrycasey 1 month ago

Al Czernik, is that you?

by Josefina69 1 month ago

Moreover, if we wanted corpses to go back to hearth, we should not be surround them with clothes and varnished wood coffin, sometime in a stone tomb... It could had a sense when we where just few specimen on Earth, when we had to remember some fierce ancestors, but now we are too invasive to let so much space to our deads...

by Brekkenoemy 1 month ago

On the contrary, i would like to have pyramids built for my death.

by xkunze 1 month ago

ok but you will be sit ON the pyramid.

by Brekkenoemy 1 month ago

Yup. I would fully support bulldozing old graveyards.

by Anonymous 1 month ago